. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ly (pMtû1): the chiefs of them were called ropâîtû, the guardians, orpastors of the family, and in later times their name became a title applicableto the nobility in combined and formedgroups of various importanceunder the authority of a headchief—rofâîtû-hâ.2. They were,in fact, hereditary lords, dis-pensing justice, levying taxesin kind on their subordinates,reserving to themselves theredistribution of land, lead-ing their men to battle, andsacrificing to the Theterritories over which theyexercised authority formedsmall
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ly (pMtû1): the chiefs of them were called ropâîtû, the guardians, orpastors of the family, and in later times their name became a title applicableto the nobility in combined and formedgroups of various importanceunder the authority of a headchief—rofâîtû-hâ.2. They were,in fact, hereditary lords, dis-pensing justice, levying taxesin kind on their subordinates,reserving to themselves theredistribution of land, lead-ing their men to battle, andsacrificing to the Theterritories over which theyexercised authority formedsmall states, whose boundarieseven now, in some places, canbe pointed out with principality of the Tere-binth 4 occupied the veryheart of Egypt, where thevalley is widest, and the courseof the Nile most advantage-ously disposed by nature—acountry well suited to be thecradle of an infant civilization. Siaût (Siût), the capital, is built almost atthe foot of the Libyan range, on a strip of land barely a mile in width, which. A EGYPTIAN LORD, TI, AND HIS 1 The word pâitû has been interpreted by M. Lepage-Renouf (Proceedings of the Biblical Archxo-Jogical Society, 1887-88, x. p. 77) to signify the dead, past generations. The sense indicated inthe text was proposed by Maspero (Études Egyptiennes, vol. ii. p. 15, et seq ) and afterwards adoptedby Brugsch (Die JEgyptologie, p. 291). 2 These titles have been explained by Maspero (Études Égyptiennes, vol. ii. pp. 15-19, andNotes au jour le jour, § 25, in the Proceedings of the Biblical Archxological Society, 1891-92,vol. xiv. p. 314 ; cf. JPiehl, in the Eecueil de Travaux, vol. i. p. 133, n. 1, and Zeitschrift, 1883,p. 128). 3 These prerogatives were still exercised by the princes of the nomes under the Middle and NewEmpires (Maspero, La Grande Inscription de Beni-Hassan, in the Recueil, vol. i. pp. 179-181); theyonly enjoyed them then by the good will of the reigning sovereign. 4 The Egyptian
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